Tag: miniatures


Dickens’s Desk-World of “little familiar objects”  


This post was contributed by Pratibha Rai, an interdisciplinary graduate from the University of Oxford. Her research area is in the visual world of literature and the ways in which authors apply material objects, illustration, and their own aesthetic sensibilities to shape meaning in narratives....

Miniature Curiosities, Mighty Considerations


This post is contributed by Anya Eastman, a third-year, Technē funded PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her thesis explores the posthumous representation of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde, with a focus on the relationship between texts and heritage sites. Anya...